rifiuto

Driffield called it il gran rifiuto the great refusal.

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Driffield called it il gran rifiuto the great refusal.

Posterity makes its choice 2009

"_A Lei non posso dar un rifiuto_," said he, meeting her shining eyes; and he gravely gathered the money and slung his tray.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

As for me personally, if I had hesitated to act, and had not in advance discounted the clamor of those Americans who have made a fetish of disloyalty to their country, I should have esteemed myself as deserving a place in Dante's inferno beside the faint-hearted cleric who was guilty of "il gran rifiuto."

XIV. The Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal 1913

As for me personally, if I had hesitated to act, and had not in advance discounted the clamor of those Americans who have made a fetish of disloyalty to their country, I should have esteemed myself as deserving a place in Dante's inferno beside the faint-hearted cleric who was guilty of "il gran rifiuto."

An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

Above all, he believed that this was the hour for a great resolve or a gran rifiuto.

Cavour Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn 1898

Apart from the sense of justice upon which Englishmen pride themselves, it is impossible to overlook the disastrous consequences of this _gran rifiuto_ for the prestige of British rule in India.

Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890

As for me personally, if I had hesitated to act, and had not in advance discounted the clamor of those Americans who have made a fetish of disloyalty to their country, I should have esteemed myself as deserving a place in Dante's inferno beside the faint-hearted cleric who was guilty of "il gran rifiuto."

Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

He was a man with whom a _gran rifiuto_ of this kind weighed heavily.

Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

Was not this indeed '_il gran rifiuto_' -- the greatest of which human daring is capable?

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885